Marc's belated birthday

Last week we finally got to celebrate marc's birthday after the illness postponement.  We had a nice dinner we friends, and the restaurant really spoiled marc by giving us complimentary edimame, and marc got a rose and bottle of rice wine!  

For Marc's birthday, the girls made some wonderful things; the birthday card was a lincoln panda eating a cat (for his birthday we were going to go see lincoln...marc really dislikes pandas....and the pandas were evil since they ate kittens....) Camille's lovely artwork decorates that card. 

And to top off the amazingness, Camille, Amanda, and Margaret all created homemade cat toys for the kitties!  Stuffed with cat nip, they loved them.  At times they share, at others they horde the toys all for themselves.

A very happy birthday despite being so long postponed.

Leith

Last weekend Marc and I spent a day wandering around Leith.  It is a very interesting area; it is where the port of Edinburgh is, so it has been a very industrialized, poor area.  However being at the water front, there has been a recent movement to turn it into a high end touristy place.  So as you drive in you have old, brick industrial style buildings with things like crematoriums, large factories, and even a massive humane society.  Then you get to where the HMS Britannica is, and you have new apartment complexes, a small boardwalk, and a large shopping mall.   It is an interesting social project and should have a lot of change in the next few years.

Hedgies!

Last weekend Marc had a zoo conference at the school. He was able to practice he clinical exams of lots of different species, including some very photogenic hedgehogs!

Terrible poster...blame the snow

I have been terrible about posting...just busy with getting all the studies up and running with the new batch of seals.  Which hasn't been easy.  Seal training in the snow anyone? This is the beach outside my office, covered with a nice layer of snow from the first frosting of the season.  We have had several since!